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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;
- Example: "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"
- Example: "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
[syn: dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Overnice \O"ver*nice"\, a. Excessively nice; fastidious. --Bp. Hall. -- O"ver*nice"ly, adv. -- O"ver*nice"ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

overnice adj 1: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" [syn: dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "overnice": Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, artificial, chichi, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, hairsplitting, hypercritical, hyperelegant, hypersensitive, la-di-da, mannered, mincing, morbidly sensitive, namby-pamby, overconscientious, overcritical, overelaborate, overelegant, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, oversensitive, oversqueamish, pedantic, precieuse, precieux, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, puristic, simpering, studied, ultracritical, unnatural